With Uber - you still have to have a way to pay them. I just want to be able to provide a ride to the hospital without getting myself involved. It is too easy for me to get sucked in. Some of it is because I took care of him as a child and that is a role that is easy for me to assume - especially when he is "sick."
The last time I took him in (just recently), he was walking around my neighborhood drunk . . . I picked him up in my car and brought him home and he did not speak that night or the next day until he said he needed to go to the hospital and then I took him to the hospital. He has detoxed several times. He (and the hospital personnel) told me how dangerous alcohol withdrawal is, so I can't see leaving him to die on the street! I would not leave a stranger to die on the street, much less him - that is the hook and I am never prepared because how can you live preparing for such dysfunction?